Virtual Elements For Engineering Appications

• Virtual Element Method for Dynamic Applications

  The Virtual Element Method is a recent developed discretization method, which can be seen as an extension of the classical Galerkin finite element method. It has been applied to various engineering fields, such as elasto-plasticity, multiphysics, damage and fracture mechanics. This project focuses on the extension of VEM towards dynamic applications. In the first part the appropriate computation of the Massmatrix regarding the vitual element ansatzspace will be done. In future works, VEM will be applied to engineering problems, considering the dynamic behavior.

  Leitung: F. Aldakheel, B. Hudobivnik, P. Wriggers

  Team: M. Cihan

  Jahr: 2019
• Virtual Element Method for 3D Contact

  Contact plays a very important role in engineering problems, where two or more bodies interact with each other through their surfaces. Many techniques were developed in the past, to formulate the contact constraint at the contact interface between two bodies. Nevertheless, VEM provides efficient and robust properties to enforce the contact constraint through the contact interface. Investigations in 2D have been done so far. This work aims an extensions of VEM to 3D contact problems.

  Leitung: F. Aldakheel, B. Hudobivnik, P. Wriggers

  Team: M. Cihan

  Jahr: 2020